Title: Vice President of Human Resources (HR)
Location: Culver City, CA
ID: 1564383
Role Overview: Lucas Group has partnered with a great Los Angeles client on their search for a Vice President of Human Resources (HR) located in Culver City, California. This executive will serve as a true generalist and provide support, guidance and advice on a variety of HR disciplines while promoting and implementing innovative HR solutions to achieve strategic goals. The ideal candidate will serve as a strategic HR leader across all parts of our business, inclusive of operational and business support functions. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a combination of strong business acumen and significant HR functional knowledge and be willing to be hands-on with everything. This position requires an individual who can build and execute a strong integrated HR strategy, as well as manage each team’s unique business needs, culture and objectives. A roll up the sleeves mentality and desire to resolve problems in a team work environment. The ideal candidate would possess excellent consulting skills and can influence senior stakeholders to get things accomplished in a global, multi-division organization. A highly collaborative background, with the ability to work in partnership with all team members. Strong expertise in data, analytics, and compliance as it relates to people operations.
What You Will Do
- Lead as a strategic business partner and thought leader, with personal accountability for delivering results.
- Develop, implement and enhance global organization-wide programs and initiatives (e.g., compensation and benefits competitiveness, employee relations and employment practices/policies/compliance).
- Develop methods to better collect, interpret, and utilize data to measure effectiveness of HR processes and programs, and provide data-driven actionable insights.
- Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders, hiring managers, critical stakeholders and partners, operating as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert.
- Serve as the senior resource for employee relations across the company.
- Provide subject matter expertise, strategic guidance, and operational leadership on people and organizational issues, particularly as a trusted advisor at the senior executive level.
- Represent client as the subject matter expert with third parties in establishing best-in-class talent compensation and benefits programs.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
- Experience as senior human resources leader in a publicly traded company.
- Demonstrated success in leading the HR function for a global firm with knowledge and experience working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures.
- Strong business acumen and a proven record of partnering with and influencing all levels of leadership to design and implement effective HR programs and services.
- Proven success as an action-oriented leader with a track record of delivering results.
- Deep expertise in a wide array of talent lifecycle subjects, such as: onboarding, retirement planning, HRIS, HR analytics, executive compensation, and employment practices.
- Ability to develop and utilize data to measure and track HR effectiveness.
- Excellent communication skills; creative problem-solving skills; and demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a global organization.
- Executive presence and judgment to address the most challenging of HR issues.
- High degree of ethics and professionalism.
- Strategic thinker with strong “can do” attitude and demonstrated experience in developing creative solutions to complex problems.
- Experience as part of a team within a growing business.
- Proficiency in appropriate computer hardware and software programs.
- Ability to travel
Lucas Group is North America's premier executive search firm. Since 1970, our culture and methodologies have driven superior results. We assist mid-tier to Fortune 500 clients find transcendent, executive talent; candidates fully realize their career ambitions; and associates find professional success. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA with 16 regional offices, our trusted, consultative, and passionate recruitment professionals combine industry depth and geographic breadth to deliver superior results. To learn more, please visit Lucas Group at www.lucasgroup.com.
